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How to use monosyllable in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word monosyllable? Here are some examples.

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Maybe inserting a monosyllable here would have ruined the poetic symmetry of his sentence.
Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
Just like my mother can home in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
Whether the root be a perfect monosyllable, or a duad, or even triad, formed on the monosyllable, it is the same thing with respect to the origin of the root.
But I think it was the starkness of the monosyllable that did it, really.
For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks.
But when the other six disjunctives are on the monosyllable, then the accent can be either ultimate or penultimate, roughly two to one in favor of retraction.
Here a sentence beginning with an absolute claim and building in its rhythm toward an eloquent climax deflates in the bathetic surprise of a harsh and inelegant monosyllable.
Examples from Classical Literature
The tiny monosyllable seemed to echo and reecho through the high-ceiled room.
All the glories and grandeurs of the fourth estate were concentrated in that haughty monosyllable.
She struggled to make an answer, and the monosyllable, yes, was formed by her lips.
She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable.
And this monosyllable indicated as much anger as the young man might have expected gratitude.
But, this time, the monosyllable was breathy, and not sharp.
Therefore, rehu might be a monosyllable, a dissyllable, or a trisyllable.
I answered with a monosyllable which I knew he could not quite catch.
And he conveyed a world of interrogation in his monosyllable.
Nothing else can be so ample as a monosyllable is sometimes.
This monosyllable was addressed to the horse, who didn't mind it at all.
It was, in fact, the monosyllable of which Carmichael had just made use.
The monosyllable escaped her lips like the yap of a dog at bay.
But the bow was lost upon Bruno, who had run out of the room, even while the great feat of The Unpronounceable Monosyllable was being triumphantly performed.
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